Alex Albon

Alexander Albon Ansusinha (อเล็กซานเดอร์ อัลบอน อังศุสิงห์;, , born 23 March 1996) is a Thai and British racing driver currently competing in Formula One for Williams Racing, under the Thai flag.

Albon previously raced in Formula One for Scuderia Toro Rosso and Red Bull Racing and in DTM for AF Corse.

Albon was born at the Portland Hospital in London, England on 23 March 1996.

His father, Nigel Albon is a former British racing driver who participated in the British Touring Car Championship and Porsche Carrera Cup.

His mother, Kankamol, is from Thailand.

His uncle, Mark Albon, is a former racing driver who competed in one round of International Formula 3000.

Albon and his family own a number of pets, consisting of at least twelve cats, a dog and two horses.

Albon started competitively racing karts in 2005 at the age of 8, competing locally and winning his local Hoddesdon Championship.

In 2006 Albon started racing in the cadet class, finishing 1st at the Kartmasters British Grand Prix and participating in the Super 1 National Honda Cadet Championship finishing 1st in 2006 and 2nd in 2007.

In 2008 he moved up to the KF3 class where he stayed until 2010.

During this time Albon won the Kartmasters British Grand Prix, Formula Kart Stars Championship, KF Winter Series, Super 1 National KF3 Championship, CIK-FIA World Cup, and CIK-FIA European Championship.

In 2011 Albon graduated to KF1 placing 2nd in the WSK Euro Series and 2nd at the CIK-FIA World Championship.

After becoming part of the Red Bull Junior Team in 2012, he was promoted to open-wheel cars for the 2012 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season.

From karting Albon graduated to the Formula Renault 2.0 Eurocup series where he drove for EPIC Racing in 2012 alongside Kevin Giovesi, Konstantin Tereschenko, Kevin Jörg, Dennis Wusthoff and Christof von Grunigen and finished 38th out of 49 in the championship after having a tough year and being unable to score points.

In 2013 Albon joined KTR to race in the 2013 Eurocup Formula Renault 2.0 season alongside Yu Kanamaru and Ignazio D'Agosto finishing 16th out of 36 in the championship.

Albon managed to secure one fastest lap and one pole position in the 2013 season, both of them coming at the Red Bull Ring in Austria.

He finished the 2013 season with 22 points.

He spent three years in the series and finished third in the 2014 championship.

In 2014 Albon raced alongside Gregor Ramsay, Jules Gounon and Callan O'Keefe and enjoyed a much more successful year.

He was once again unable to find a win at any of the 14 races but managed to get one pole position at the Nürburgring and finished 3rd in the drivers' championship with 117 points.

He moved to the FIA Formula 3 European Championship in 2015, where he finished seventh.

In 2015, Albon switched to European Formula 3, racing at Signature with teammate Dorian Boccolacci.

He finished seventh overall, with two pole positions (scored at the Norisring), 5 podiums (including four rookie wins), and 187 points overall.

In December 2015, Albon partook in post-season testing with ART Grand Prix.

He signed with ART Grand Prix to contest the 2016 GP3 Series, and ended the season as runner-up behind teammate Charles Leclerc.

In 2016, Albon raced for ART in the GP3.

Albon claimed four wins and finished as runner-up in the championship to teammate Charles Leclerc.

In 2017 Albon moved up to the FIA Formula 2 Championship with ART, where he finished his maiden year tenth in the standings.

He then switched to the DAMS team for, winning four races and finishing third in the championship.

He made his Formula One début in with Toro Rosso alongside Daniil Kvyat.

After twelve races, Albon was promoted to Red Bull Racing, partnering Max Verstappen and replacing Pierre Gasly.

In 2017, Albon graduated to the FIA Formula 2 Championship, with ART.

His teammate for the season would be Nobuharu Matsushita, who at the time was also signed as a development driver for McLaren.

Albon returned to Formula One in, driving for Williams, replacing fellow 2019 rookie George Russell, and continued with the team in 2023.

He has been publicly dating Chinese LPGA golfer Lily He since 2019.

Growing up in Bures, Suffolk alongside a younger brother, Luca, and three sisters, Chloe, Zoe and Alicia, Albon attended Ipswich School before leaving to pursue his professional racing career, citing Michael Schumacher and Valentino Rossi as being inspirational figures when he was younger.

Albon holds dual British and Thai nationality, and races under the Thai flag.

Albon practises Buddhism.

He took his first podium finish – and the first in a World Championship Formula One race for a Thai driver – at the 2020 Tuscan Grand Prix.

After two seasons in Formula One, Albon was demoted to a test and reserve driver role with Red Bull for and his seat was taken by Sergio Pérez.